25 Bible Verses about Wronging Other People

And if thou sell anything unto thy neighbour or buy anything of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God.

And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had sinned against their lord, the king of Egypt.

Then Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak unto you, saying, Do not sin against the young man, and ye would not hear? Therefore, behold, his blood is also required.

And Jonathan spoke good of David unto Saul, his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his slave David, for he has not sinned against thee; on the other hand his works have been very good for thee,

for he put his soul in his hand and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel. Thou didst see it and rejoice. Why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood to slay David without a cause?

So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they did unto thee evil; and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the slaves of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.

There is no firewood given unto thy slaves, yet they say to us, Make brick. Behold, thy slaves are beaten; and thy people sin.

For this deed of the queen shall be known abroad unto all the women so that they shall despise their husbands, saying, King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti, the queen, to be brought in before him, but she did not come.

These ten times ye have reproached me; are ye not ashamed to make yourselves strange to me?

Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.

Resh O LORD, thou hast seen where I was wrong; plead thou my cause.

And he said unto them, Even if the LORD be with you, how can I let you go with your little ones; look at the malice which is before your face.

Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, In what have I sinned against thee or against thy slaves or against this people that ye have put me in prison?

For if ye set men free from their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also set you free;

but if ye do not set men free from their trespasses, neither will your Father set you free from your trespasses.

Therefore if thy brother shall sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone; if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Then Peter came to him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? until seven times?

But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a denarius?

And if he trespasses against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turns again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove and urged them to peace, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

Now therefore there is certainly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather suffer the wrong? why do ye not rather be defrauded?

But ye do wrong and defraud and do this to your brothers.

In this manner, therefore, sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are; ye have not injured me at all.